My presentation at Mediated City Conference Bristol looking at how structured social media use can help enable new forms of public agency in the emerging Smart City, better City 2.0. Social Networks offer us strong ties & weak ties and Social change comes from an collaborative mix of string & weak ties/

1. Citizen-Generated Contexts
@fredgarnett #CityZens Bristol 2nd April 2016

2. Citizen-Generated Contexts
Social action
Cultural regeneration
Property speculation
Complex social-practices as “extra-
institutional structuring”

3. (or) Structuring Social Media 4 CityZens
Municipality Smart City Participatory
City 2.0
City City Hall Real-time
City Hall
Distributed
City Hall
Institution Bricks &
Mortar
Clicks &
Mortar
Arch of
Participation
Street Tarmac Wifi/Digital Context
Engineering
Strategy Urban Plan Urban
Vision
Collaborative
Vision

4. Citizen-Generated Contexts; topics
Learner-Generated Contexts
Ambient Learning City
Citizens & Participation
e-Enabling or Transformational?
Metaphors (dynamic)
Extra-Institutional Structuring;
Complex-Social Practices
Citizen-Generated Contexts

5. Learner-Generated Contexts
Citizen-Generated Contexts

6. Web 2.0
from
Access
(to technology)
to
Content
(digital/divide User-generated content YouTube/blogs)
to
Context
(Context-shaping / Dialogical activities)

7. Web 2.0 & Learning
We formed Learner-Generated
Contexts group (2006)
“A coincidence of motivations
leading to agile configurations”
Open Context Model of Learning
Using a “development
framework” the PAH Continuum

8. P A H
Teacher
School
Teacher/
Learner
Learner
Research
Cognition Epistemic
Cognition
Meta-
Cognition
Adult

9. Pedagogy Andragogy Heutagogy
From Andragogy to Heutagogy
Pedagogy Andragogy Heutagogy Continuum
Pedagogy the institutionalisation of learning around
facts, resource scarcity, subject disciplines;
education as a delivery system (cognition)
Andragogy negotiated, collaborative, interest-driven
learning brokered into ‘open’ spaces – at best the
community is the curriculum (meta-cognition)
Heutagogy self-determined learning where learner
creativity enables innovation (epistemic cognition)

10. Learning could now be…
context shaping

11. Challenging boundaries;
Making Curricula, Organisation, Administration Liminal

12. “Technology is the essence of politics”
But are we e-enabling or transforming?

13. Ambient-Learning City
Citizen-Generated Contexts

14. Can we treat the City
As a range of Learning Environments?

15. Social Cities of Tomorrow
Some Answers
New metaphors
New relationships
Object-centred sociality
Participative curatorial strategies
Aggregate then Curate
Post-institutional thinking
Participatory Cities

16. Citizens & Participation
Citizen-Generated Contexts

17. Citizens & Participation
Current participation on Politics; 30%
& Voting describe as “participation”
Is the choice between smart phones as
fantastic technology for diversion?
OR Clictivism seeming to be involved
with saving everything but absent from
place?
Or can we use #socialmedia to help
structure new relationships?

18. Rem Koolhaas “fantastic technology”
Evgeny Morozov To save everything; click here

19. e-Enabling or Transformational?
Citizen-Generated Contexts

20. e-Enabling or Transformational?
Ben Hammersley ‘Towards an Internet of
People (2011)
Hierarchies vs Networks…
Informations Systems in Society;
Hierarchical Business Information Systems
vs Everything is Miscellaneous (Weinberger)
(after Taxonomies “information-retrieval is
expensive” Brazil 1984)

21. Development Frameworks
Open Context Model for Learning, included a
“development framework”
*Pedagogy – subject mastery
*Heutagogy - enabling creativity
Development Frameworks as “an intermediate
structuring process”
First as a Heuristic then as a Design Tool

22. P A H
Teacher
School
Teacher/
Learner
Learner
Research
Cognition Epistemic
Cognition
Meta-
Cognition
Adult

23. Development Framework as Design Tool

24. Heuristic Framework for CityZens
Municipality Smart City Participatory
City 2.0
City City Hall Real-time
City Hall
Distributed
City Hall
Institution Bricks &
Mortar
Clicks &
Mortar
Arch of
Participation
Street Tarmac Wifi/Digital Context
Engineering
Strategy Urban Plan Urban
Vision
Collaborative
Vision

25. Caroline Haythornthwaite on Social Networks
Social Networks offer us strong ties & weak ties
Social change comes from a collaborative mix of ties
The
Stygmergy of
Swarming
#socialmedia
as extra-
institutional
structuring…

26. Meta-Phors…
Citizen-Generated Contexts

27. Everything is a Metaphor @fredgarnett
“deconstruct our currently structuring language use”

28. Ambient Learning City; Emergence
Digital / Cabinets of Curiosities

29. Ambient Learning City; Emergence
Digital Cabinets of Curiosities
Cabinets of Curiosities predate Museums
Then; New Artefacts! New collections!
Promoting New futures!
Now; museums curate traditional collections
Promoting old histories :-(
Let’s build Digital Cabinets of Curiosities
Rewrite our narrative relationships with
cultural objects that we own and share

30. Extra-Institutional Structuring
Citizen-Generated Contexts

31. Participatory Curation
Learner-Generated Context Research Group
interested in;
”Problematising the context
space & inventing new
solutions”
Creating Development Frameworks, new tools &
extra-institutional structuring…

32. Aggregate then Curate
#Pararchive Leeds University 2015
Fred Garnett Drew Whitworth

33. Ambient Learning City; New Models
Aggregate then Curate; Social Media Participation Model

34. Complex Social Practices
Citizen-Generated Contexts

35. Complex Social Practices
Social Media Learning Models Violeta Serbu
HE use of #socialmedia is based on;
1. Tools, 2. Learning Environments, &
3. Complex Social Practices… (CROS)
In our comparison of CROS & #WikiQuals
We realised that the
Complex Social Practices… Come FIRST…

36. CROS as Complex Social Practice

37. Existing Complex Social Practices
Transition Towns, Local Assemblies, MakeSense
Meetups, GovCamps, CityCamps #Occupy, Free
Schools, Ragged University, UK great @ alt.history

38. Complex Social Practices
Citizen-Generated Contexts
Social action
Cultural regeneration
Property speculation
Low-tide walks Deptford Creek

39. Complex Social Practices
Mobility & the City; THEN!…
Smart Mobs “ ad-hoc, self-organised, networks
of grassroots users of fast comms, challenge
existing tech, regulatory regimes & industries”
Rheingold 2002 as was…
Urban Tapestries (Proboscis) City as Material
But Rheingold referenced the Japanese i-Phone,
but instead NOW! we havethe iPhone…
So proprietary instead of #Open #lastfridaymob

40. Citizen-Generated Contexts…
Citizen-Generated Contexts

41. Citizen-Generated Contexts…
We can define CGSs as
“structured social media enabling
purposeful public agency”
With structure social media as extra-
institutional structuring &
And purposeful public agency from
New complex social practices…
(Ta Aaron Tobey! – Cincinnati)

42. enabling #participatory City Futures
So, how do we engage with this social
change process as it affects us day-by-day?
How do we frame our thoughts on the kind
of cities we want to live in?
Web 2.0 holds potential for participation
But existing organisations want more of the
same (same as <the past only more intense)
Transition Cities or privatised Municipalities?

43. Build the Society that Pleases You Most
#makesense

44. BY Solving the problem that annoyed us most
#WikiQuals; self-accredited learning
Phillipa Young -
TEDx

45. enabling #participatory City Futures
Some ideas from Origin of Spaces (EU)
ZAWP – Bilbao
Rolling process of hyper-local partnerships, permanently
debating w/the council “from action to process”
LX Factory – Lisboa
Hyper-cool Coworking hub, designing in a social mix.
“Hoxton in a factory” a “post-welfare state” solution
ROJC – Pula
Rebuilding Civil Society (post Civil-War) through NGOs
Darwin – Bordeaux
Ecological transitions to a sustainable economy
Co-creating Coworking Spaces

46. “from action
to process”
#oosEU

47. Participatory City Futures
On the design side we need…
Development Frameworks to help the
dialogical design of
The city we choose to live in!
Both for
Network Society &
City 2.0 or…
CityZens Context Engineering
Development Framework for Network Society

48. Citizen-Generated Contexts…
We need a
“distributed, citizen-centric, diverse,
democratic, political architecture”
Positively designed for Emergence
Where people say
“How can I participate?” NOT
“What can I buy?”

49. Citizen-Generated Contexts or
Before and After Smart Cities @fredgarnett